Well another month has gone and I find I have yet another round up to do!. It feels so good to check on all the lovely entries that came and get amazed at the way everybody makes an attempt to use the Microwave for a better purpose than just reheating. Though I got to say, had I not use it for reheating I will definitely go mad!. But cooking a dish completely in MW gets to be such a challenge. That's why I think we will do Gravies for the month of December! You can prepare anything that fits a bill as main course and send me how many ever you want by 31st December with Subject line MEC: Gravies! Check out here for more details.

Ok lets move on to check out the entries that came this month.

**************************************Bee and Jai brings us a beautiful dish called Brussels Sprouts, Chinese Style. Check out their blog for Brussels sprouts in three ways. I was seeing a Brussels sprout for the first time and I was in love with the picture.

Their blog is always filled with such beautiful pictures, I just forget to check out the recipe most of the time!

They has this small patch of soil in which they grow radish, chillies, tomatoes, cauliflower, onions, squashes, lady's finger, beans, groundnuts...etc.you think I missed some of the other vegetable they grow? Not really just didn't have space to type them all. But you get the picture right? They grow everything!

**************************************Meera of Enjoy Indian Food brings us Some Maharashtrian, Some Gujarati, Some South Canara and Some Malvani - some !!! Phew! All from her kitchen to ours! Thanks Meera.

Check out her dish called Akuri, which is scrambled egg or burji, Parsi style.

**************************************Finally the Chef at work comings singing to us with her dish.

She says she has been busy and she also got 1 + 5 weddings to attend! Well that's too many weddings in a span. So she is quick to make this for us

She says these are excellent with pooris. She makes them for a leisure breakfast/brunch on a holiday. she ends up eating loads of it because she enjoys the sweet-sour and spicy taste of it!

The dish sure has super duper colour and so tempting right off the monitor

**************************************

While you are at this, make sure you check out what tips Renuka has to share with us.

Renuka blogs on many tips from Idlies to various other things. Be sure to check them all!

**************************************

Ashu spins a tale from A Goan's Kitchen. She does a wonderful pictorial of recipes, apart from a beautiful picture peeking from her header. Her picture of poha snack was mouth watering.

While you are getting lost in the beauties that Ashu has to show us, be sure to check out Vaalichi Bhaji, an authentic Goan dish prepared in the microwave.

**************************************Next comes Siri from her corner to enthrall us with a tempting Bengali Tomato Chutney

She says she ensure she cooks for me because she wants to have an optimum use of her MW! Do you find me complaining. I do welcome her with arms wide open.

She asks "What if, one fine day we are out of gas What if you tellme??..Not to worry we have Siri cooking all the dishes in MW to save us!

She this tamatar chutney with panchporan. which gave it an edge! Be sure you try it, her pictures are giving me dreams!**************************************

Ok Suma says she has been busy, I forgive her because she remembered to bring her dish for the party! Just check out her 3 in 1 post that she has done. I just went over the board seeing her Dates and Almond Payasam, such colour and look.

Well she squeezed in time to try out a dish in MW just for us. So sweet of you Suma, thank you. So check out her A Sweet, A Spread And A Saagu (Don't be so taken away from the first two to fail to check out the Saagu, that's what is mine!)

**************************************Coming to what I did for this month. I tried a simple poriyal with Cabbage. Looks like cabbage gets cooked quite well in MW.

Take a MW safe bowl, add chopped cabbage. Keep it for 10 mins. Keep stirring in between to check if its cooked. Once its done, remove.

For the tadka, take another bowl or clean the same bowl used for cooking the cabbage. Add 1 tsp of oil, along with mustard, red chillies, curry leaves. Keep it for 2 to 3 mins. When you see the mustard bubbling up, add the cooked cabbage and keep it for another 2 mins.

When you remove, add grated coconut as garnish. I didn't cook coconut as I normally like it raw.

I have not mentioned the temperature as mine does not have. Mine is a grill with convectional and Micro. so I normally keep it Micro and adjust the timings.

**************************************

Please let me know if I have missed out any entry.

Thank you everybody for your wonderful contribution. Looking forward to next month's entries.

Enjoy and do try out these dishes and let me know if they were helpful!